Brunch
Pancakes, warm apple crisp, home fries, ham, vegetable and cheese frittata, make your own waffles-toppings, assorted omelets and eggs at grill, blueberry muffins, coffee cake
Dinner
Italian style chicken, cheese tortellini, Spaghetti, tomato sauce, alfredo sauce, meatballs, nonmeat/veggie balls, catalina island blend vegetables, create your own Panini-ass’t deli meats, ass’t vegetables, feta cheese and ciabatta bread
Academic Dean Greg Tuleja and the faculty understand that the fall Jewish holidays will mean that some students will miss classes and may be unable to do academic work for several days. Faculty will be flexible in giving deadline extensions and rescheduling tests when reasonable accommodations would benefit students.
Convocation is Monday, September 16, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Students will sit by class in formal dress (coat and tie for boys, no tennis shoes; girls should be in skirts, dresses, or dress pants) for the event. If you have a question about dress code, please see page 15 in the Student Handbook. Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan P’08, ’10 will be this year’s speaker.
Following Convocation, the Upper School will hold class dinners. The Class of 2014 will attend Senior Dinner, with speaker Sara Delano Collins ’98. Juniors will have dinner in the lower level of the Reed Campus Center. Sophomores should meet in the lobby of the Athletic Center, and freshmen will have their dinner in the Dodge Room in the Reed Campus Center. Pick up for day students will be following class dinners at 6:45 p.m.
Class orientations are this Sunday, September 8. Day students need to be on campus from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Students should be dressed in their class t-shirts (received at Registration) and sneakers appropriate for outdoor activities. Sophomores and juniors should meet at the Athletic Center in the morning; seniors should meet in the Birch Dining Commons. Day students will finish the day at 5:30 p.m., following a meeting with the Dean of Students in the Chapel and may stay for dinner or be picked up from campus at that time.
Fall Dance Ensemble auditions will be held next week in the Dance Studio in the Reed Campus Center. Dance Ensemble is open to all Middle and Upper School students. The audition is held in the form of a technique class, so students won’t need to have anything prepared but they must attend each day to be considered. The schedule is as follows: Monday, September 9, 3:45-5:30 p.m.: Information Session; Tuesday, September 10, 3:45-5:00 p.m.: Hip Hop with guest artist, Mat Elder (bring clean sneakers); Wednesday, September 11, 1:15-2:45 p.m.: Ballet Barre and Contemporary Combination (ballet shoes preferred); Thursday, September 12, 3:45-5:15 p.m.: Jazz Warm-Up and Re-visit the Contemporary Combination (jazz shoes preferred); Friday, September 13, 3:45-5:00 p.m.: Student Choreographer Auditions.
Auditions for the fall play, A Servant to Two Masters, by Carlo Goldoni and adapted by Lee Hall, are Tuesday, September 10 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Williston Theatre. Students do not need to prepare anything in advance but should come ready to do some improvisation and read from the play. For more information, including a summary of the play, rehearsal schedules, and performance dates, please contact Emily Ditkovski, director of the Williston Theatre.
The Williston Northampton School will ring in its 173rd year with a Convocation ceremony on Monday, September 16 at 5:00 p.m. This year’s distinguished speaker, Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan will address the crowd of honored guests, students, faculty and staff, community members, and friends of the school. Mr. Sullivan is the parent of two Williston graduates.
Mr. Sullivan was elected to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office in November 2010 and began his term in January of the following year. He has been an attorney for more than 25 years, serving 17 years as a trial attorney and advocate. He has handled thousands of criminal and civil cases and tried cases in Superior, District, Juvenile, and Military courts.
In 2008, Mr. Sullivan was one of two Massachusetts lawyers chosen to receive the Massachusetts Bar Foundation’s President’s Award for “extraordinary volunteerism, leadership, and commitment to increasing access to justice in Massachusetts.”
Following Mr. Sullivan’s speech, the student body president, Madeleine Stern ’14, will speak and then lead everyone in the singing of the alma mater, “O Williston.”
The annual Senior Dinner will be held after the ceremony in the Birch Dining Commons where guest speaker Sara Delano Collins ’98 will address the senior class and faculty. Ms. Collins graduated from the University of Denver and is now a Senior Product Management Consultant at File & ServeXpress, a division of LexisNexis.
Flume, an exhibit by Western Massachusetts artist Deborra Stewart-Pettengill, will be on display in the Grubbs Gallery from August 29 to September 30.
The show is based on a collection of sculptures inspired by her previous show GATHER. In Flume, Ms. Stewart-Pettengill experiments with creating a sense of motion and direction within a tightly contained space. “These pieces challenged me to investigate the nature of value within the realm of transparency, and fragility,” said Ms. Stewart-Pettengill.
“Designing them to be installed directly on the gallery wall allowed me to keep each form fluid, and flexible as it relates to the particular space in which it is located,” she said.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina (BFA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA), Ms. Stewart-Pettengill is a member of The Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, MA and chairs the arts department at The Bement School in Deerfield, MA.
Ms. Stewart-Pettengill has exhibited extensively across the country including shows in California, Illinois, New York, Virginia, South Carolina, and throughout the Northeast. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at The Oxbow Gallery in 2012 and 2011.
A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday, September 15 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the gallery. The gallery is open on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
All students planning on participating on a competitive team must purchase an athletic travel suit. The full suit costs $115. Families can purchase the suit online through the Boathouse website. All other purchases will take place during registration. Returning students are welcome to purchase new suits if they wish but not necessary if you child already owns a suit.
The dining hall will be open for lunch today and lunch tomorrow from 11:30 to 12:45.
